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Confort with silence in different countries
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So I'm from Germany but I live in Korea. And especially in the beginning when I arrived here as a agile coach for a big automotive supplier company where I was supposed to teach them the new processes and so on it was terrifying.
I would do a presentation of something and then my expectation was that we would talk about parts of it and there would be follow up questions about details, etc. but more often than not there was just silence. And that would eat me up inside to a degree where some times I would complain about it and just cut the meetings short.
Over time I realized that they are comfortable sitting and thinking about what I showed them.
But it's still difficult for me :D
Are you sure they are comfortable just sitting? Agile is extreamly dysfunctional in most companies... When I was in agile meetings at some previous jobs, I just zoned out too. Listened to music. :)
Now I'm at a company without any agile practices and it's fucking amazing. It's exactly like when working on projects in university. Don't need any agile coaches. Just work and talk to manager directly about progress. It's just so good.
We have no standups, almost no meetings. Just focused work and lots of funny chats during the day. People are happy and content.
For me, working without agile has been a game changer. I'm never going back to that. Now I'm happy again.
Are y'all hiring over there? That sounds amazing
Haha, touche! They would still follow the new style because their management made them.